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: ... ? . ixike University ilfcary Newspaper Department ;, Durham, -N. C 27706 , , '- " f '-"" -fr'Hf-T0t M"- ' ' i . V & " t" v . Tfio Dlccfr Press OurFroodom Depends On It! I'ordfs of Wisdom The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. Spencer VOLUME 54 - NUMBER 50 . "READ BY OVER 30,000 DURHAMITES" DURHAM NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1976 TELEPHONE (919) 688-6587 PRICE: 20 CENTS HACK ( TO Ml 11m KHS.C Former Hay or Of Chapel Hill Is S tate's First RALEIGH (CCNS)-How-ard N. Lee, the first Black to , be appointed to a cabinet post -in North Carolina government. Lee's appointment was annou nced Thursday, December 16 by Governor-elect James Hunt. Also appointed to cabinet posi tions were Joseph Grimsley, to be Secretary of the N.C. De partment of, Administration and Dr. Sarah T. Morrow as Se aetaryof the N.C. Department of Human Resources. Hunt promised Black vo ters, as did all major candidates in the democratic gubernatorial primary, to include at least one Black in a cabinet level posi tion Ue, an imsuccessful can- -didafe for the democratic lieu-, Z had been widely discussed as Secretary of the Department of . Human Resources, one of the largest departments in State Government. Lee, well poised and flanked by Hunt, Grimsley, Dr. Morrow and his wife, Mrs. Lik lian Lee, in a modest speech said he was "committing my self to dp the best possible job I can to support Governor-elect Hunt, the ideas he has set forth and the principles that he ex poused in the campaign." Whether Lee will have a free hand in choosing the de- Eiity secretaries and division eads in jthe Department of Natural and Economic Re sources (NER) was not made clear by Governor-elect Hunt. Hunt was questioned by re porters as to whether Lee would have final word on choices for a deputy secretary if the two of them differed on Lee's choices. Hunt quipped, "IH just say to you that we'll work that thing out and we'll come to agreement together as to who the best person is." Hunt's response to the report er's questions was drowned out by laughter by the seventy five persons attending the an nouncement ceremony, includ ing Lieutenant Governor-elect James Green, who defeated Lee in the September 14 run off for the democratic nomina-; tion for Lt. Governor. The Department of NER has seven divisions and twenty Continued on Page 3 Pamle Is Denied Joanne Little , I' ' y 4 fe'ai - I ; ' -'"1 HELPING HANDS AND HEARTS Members of the Bull City Elks Youth Council are shown with a check for $50 nd a basket of food that was pre sented to Mrs. Elizabeth Jones and Mrs. Mattle Knox whose home Was recently burned. The youths raised the money by selling two-year calendars. Shown with them are Assistant N.C,-State Youth Director Bro. Melvin Par ker, Directress Dgt. P.S.P. Catherine G. Leslie and Bro. Neal Leslie. Not shown Bro. Charlie Tomlin and P.G.D.R. Olean Davis.1. , f '''v (The Carolina Tlmea Photo by Ken Edmonds) . l'fi'AFtina AniDn?u By Warren D. Blackshear Unable to obtain enough local ' matching : funds, Opeation Breakthrough will bypass the minimal proceeds normally received from sales and yard sales' to speculate on booking top, name entertain ment to raise $200,000 for projects to help the a rea's poor population. The ' City's anti-poverty agency board of trustees at the December 16 meeting approved a Concert Budget Proposal to raise . local funds to match their share of federal funds to fight poverty. , While the proposal was re- . commended by the Admin- entetainment act possible" which v would fill Greensboro Coliseum's 16,000 seats at ticket prices between $6 and $9, McNeil said. , Operation Breakthrough would ner $47,640 for local match money according to the proposal. The net amount of funds could be increased to about $200,000, McNeil said, if they held an outdoor concert in Duke University's football stadium. The director indi cated that his figures were ob tained from Robert Reader of Global Productions, a New Jersey booking agency. Although . the proposal was approved by a substantial : istrative Committee, the pro- V margin, some of the directors ject's chief exponent was Fred questioned the wisdom of this McNeill, ; executive d irector.. speculative fund raising i' : The project, as presented approach, to the trustees, would cost ' , : Responding to the legiti $25,750 in advance to gross a. macy of using federal funds total of $96,000. The gross in this manner, McNeill said 'amount was based on spending that he had consulted with $32,500 to book the "hottest officials and had received f assurances that general funds could be used'for such a pro ject.' ; One board member told the group how another organi zation he was affiliated with "lost their shirts" promoting an entertainment act. McNeill countered saying that when his fraternity Omega Psi Phi decided not to speculate on a similar fund raising venture, they missed making a huge . profit which went to the pro r moters of the affair. Several members of the board were concerned about how this type of fund rais ing activity would affect the agency's image. To this a female member of the ad ministrative committee re plied "if the county and city don't see fit to support us, we should seek another source" for local funds. The net proceeds from the project, if any, will be used to provide Operation Break through's share to match the federal dollars they will re ceive. According to McNeill, the agency has to raise more than $500,000 for the current budget year. The local matching funds this year is 40 of the total budget, whereas, last year, the agency was only required to raise 30 locally. The agency only raised 22 and received a waive, r of 10 from the federal funding sources. When introducing the pro posal, McNeill said the major concert "proposal might be able to raise the whole 40." The directors voted to give the Administrative Committee and director the go-ahead to pro ceed with legal guidance. . OFFERED J0D BY CATHOLIC DIOCESE III VA. RALEIGH (CCNS) - A plan to parole Joanne Little to live and work under the direc tion of the Catholic Diocese of Virginia fell through Friday, December 17 after Ms. Little disclosed that plans submitted by her to live and work in North Carolina had been reject ed and that she accepted a plan to go to Virginia only to get out of prison. Jack Seism; Chairman of. the N.C. Parole Commission ; said plan& proposed by Ms. Lit- tie toMive bV' eastern' North; w' Caioiinar $spciaJfo& ton, (N.C.) were rejected by the Commi ssion because, "1 do not believe it would be very satisfactory either for her or for the community because her case has received so much pub licity and there is resentment in that community on the pari )f some people. Seism said hat if Joanne were in eastern Jorth Carolina, every day her presence "would lead to some harassment and create prob lems for her and make it diffi cult for her to succeed on pa role." Joanne, interviewed at Wo men's Prison in Raleigh the day before denial of parole, said that she didn't want to leave her native North Carolina but she had no choice. Initially she ft COL. HARVEY AMS Durhanite Selected for Promotion to Brig. Gen' I Continued On Page 1 ) Colonel Harvey D. Williams was recently selected by Department of the Army for promotion to the rank of Brigadier General. He is married to the former Miss Mary E. Glenn, of Rouge mont, and is the son of the late Matthew D. Williams and Mrs. Addie M. Williams, 1603 Fayetteville Street, Durham Colonel Williams is a graduate of Hillside High School (class of '46), West Virginia State College and holds advanced degrees from George Washington Univer sity. His decorations include the Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, the Meritorious Sendee Medal, 5 Air Medals, and 4 Army Commendation Medals. On Health Care For Poor deily fireiiy eposfls Corteir CogdM ! Breakthrough Coordinator Quits Post Prior to the adjournment of last Thursday's board meet ing, Charsie Hedgepeth, coor dinator of Operation Break through's youth program, re signed effective, January 4, 1977. Her resignation was announced to the board when she read a seven page statement criticizing members of the ad Continued on Page 2 If you're a Southerner, poor, or black, youU be sick more, stay in bed longer because of illness, and die sooner than the rest of the people of the United States. According to a task force created by Dr. George Debnam of Raleigh, president of the Old North State Medical Society, one of your problems is that you can't find a doctor as easily as others can. The doctors don't live where you live. , The infant mortality rate for the nation is 23.0 deaths for each 1,000 live births. For the South, the rate is 25.7. for Southern rural areas it is 27.8 and for rural Southern blacks it is 45.0, according to a 1975 report by the Southern Regional Council. : . Each year, 9 J per cent of the population dies across the nation. For the South, the figure is 9.4 for the rural South 10.4 and for rural Southern blacks 11.2. The average amount of restricted, activity due to. illness across the nation is 16.8 days a year. In Southern inner-cities, the figure is 19.1 days, and in the rural South it is 19.4 days. Across the nation, there are 133 physicians for every 100,000 people. In the South there are only 103 phy sicians for every 100,000 people. And in Southern rural counties there are only 60 physicians for every 100,000 people. r ,. Physician populations fall with the income of the population. In counties where there is high poverty, the number of physicians available may be as low as 44 per 100,000. '. ' v ' Doctors don't live in those counties because they didn't grow up there. And until more black men and women, more sons and daughters of the South and its poor families, are trained as physicians, your ability to find a doctor will be limited, Dr. Charles D. Watts, says. Dr. Watts is chairman of a Task Force on Community Information formed by the Old North State Medical Society. The society is predominantly black and is the oldest such group in the nation, formed in North Carolina in 1896. ' ; Other members of tht task force are Dr. George C. Debnam, President, Old North State Medical Society Raleigh; Dr. John Holt, President-elect, Asheville; Dr. W. T. Armstrong, Secretary-Treasurer, Rocky Mount; Dr. R. E. Dawson, Durham; and Dr. J. P. Green, Hen derson. . V; Black students and the children of the poor may have more ability to work as physician than do some of the stu dents now in medical .school. The black and the poor face three major barriers to medical training. The first barrier is a lack of information. Black stu dent and students from poor families dont know that they can become doctors. And they're often pointed in the wrong direction by weB-meaning counselors. "When that youngster takes that course in busi ness mathematics (instead ' of algebra) in junior high school, he has stepped onto a track that leads to a tech nical institute. He or she wont be a doctor. The techni cal institutes train medical technicians and practical nurses, not doctors. "I'm not saying that medical technicians and practi cal nurses aren't needed. They are. But the youngster who has the ability to face -the training period required . of a physician should be told that he can be doctor, saysDr; Watts. , , Dr. Watts and other members of the Old North State Medical Society, men and women who have them selves passed rigid barriers to become physicians, eng?pa in strenous efforts to pass the work to their potential successors. ' They advise premedical and health careers Hubs at colleges and universities. -. - 11 ' ' . . 4 .. ;
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